The January 6 attack on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, demonstrated how online disinformation, amplification and platform algorithms have real-world impacts. Joan Donovan and Taylor Owen discuss how the stage was set in the latest episode of Big Tech.
Digital platforms’ decision to ban or block Donald Trump reveals the extent to which these platforms are uniquely shaped by and respond to American needs and values. Blayne Haggart explains.
Last week, we welcomed Delphine Halgand-Mishra as a CIGI senior fellow. She is an expert on press freedom and regulatory frameworks for platforms. Learn more about her research here.
The absence of transparency can breed bad things — conspiracy theories, distrust or abuses of power. In this article, Wesley Wark considers how Canada might sharpen its focus on efforts to maintain national security transparency.
China’s journey from being a technological backwater to a technological superpower was fuelled, in part, by the success of its venture capital (VC) sector in supporting start-ups. In this paper, Anton Malkin outlines four lessons that policy makers could learn from China’s growing VC sector.
Feb. 8 and Feb. 9 – 1:30 p.m. CET (UTC+01:00), Italy: As part of its 2021 Group of Twenty presidency, Italy’s T20 secretariat is hosting a two-day virtual inception conference. CIGI President Rohinton P. Medhora will co-chair a session on multilateralism and governance, and Robert Fay, CIGI’s managing director of digital economy, will co-chair a session on the digital transformation.
Feb. 9 – 1:30 p.m. EST (UTC–05:00): Join us for a discussion with David Vigneault, director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, about the changing threat landscape, and the ways in which Canada can contribute to an important strategic discussion around national security and intelligence practices.
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